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These tools support a Welfare Footprint analysis. Each one is separate. Results are your own analysis, not estimates published by the Welfare Footprint Institute.

  • AI assisted toolsCustom GPTs that help describe systems, map experiences, and draft a first analysis.
  • Welfare AtlasA developing atlas for quantitative animal-welfare assessment at greater scale.
  • ProcessogramsDiagrams of the places and stages animals pass through in a production system.
  • Value of informationCompares uncertain scenarios and ranks which inputs are worth knowing more precisely.
  • Calibration trainerPractice giving 90% uncertainty intervals that contain the true value about nine times in ten.
  • Welfare impact calculatorCombine durations, intensities, prevalence, and Life-Fates into cumulative time in pain and pleasure.
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The Welfare Footprint Institute is a registered research organization (ROR 01h4vc987) and a 501(c)(3) nonprofit incorporated in the United States. Our reports, data, and charts are licensed under CC BY 4.0 unless otherwise stated: you may use, share, and adapt them, including commercially, with attribution to the Welfare Footprint Institute and the named authors. Some third-party materials are subject to their own licenses and are marked accordingly. The Institute provides scientific evidence and welfare estimates with explicit assumptions and uncertainty; it does not prescribe policy, certify products, or issue moral judgments about how the evidence should be used.

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  • The Welfare Footprint of the Egg
  • Transition to cage-free systems
  • Layer mortality in cage-free system
  • Broiler chickens and BCC/ECC
  • Poultry slaughter
  • Welfare of farmed fish
  • Salmon welfare
  • Fish welfare at slaughter
  • Impact of gestation crate transition for sows
  • Productivity and mortality of sows
  • Shrimp welfare
  • Estimates dossier

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